Multi-carrier shipping platform recovery
RaftLabs rebuilt carrier and commerce integrations and migrated existing customers. Results are specific to UrShipper and its vendor access.
Supply Chain Automation Software
Supply chain automation for one exception-aware handoff.
We automate a bounded procurement, supplier, inventory, receipt, invoice, shipment, or reconciliation workflow across existing systems. The client, planners, buyers, warehouse teams, finance, quality, suppliers, carriers, and advisers own demand, safety stock, sourcing, purchase, release, substitution, quality, accounting, tax, sanctions, customs, and compliance decisions.
Bring the problem, the current workflow, or the existing code. We reply with a practical next step within one business day.
The brief
Start with what is not working.
Good software decisions begin with the constraint, not a list of features or a preferred technology.
01
Do ERP, WMS, supplier, carrier, receiving, invoice, and planning records disagree about the same order or item?
02
Can operations see which trigger, rule, approval, event, retry, or exception produced a purchase, receipt, match, or inventory write?
Plain answer
Supply chain automation connects procurement, supplier, inventory, receipt, invoice, shipment, and reconciliation events across existing systems. It applies client-approved rules, routes exceptions, and preserves human authority for commercial and operational decisions. RaftLabs scopes one measurable handoff first, starting at $40,000 over 12 to 16 weeks.
The supplier confirmed the change. The ERP still ordered the old quantity.
A buyer approved a revised quantity by email, the supplier portal reflected it, and an overnight job recreated the original PO from a stale planning file. Every system completed its task. The chain lacked one event contract, effective version, approval authority, idempotent write, and reconciliation owner.
Adjacent supply-chain delivery
- existing customers migrated
- 200+
- Multi-carrier platform recovery
- retail locations connected
- 40+
- Inventory and invoice operations case
- shipping platform recovery
- 14 weeks
- Published client delivery
The multi-carrier case proves carrier integration and migration; the gas-station case proves multi-location POS, inventory, vendor, and invoice workflows. Neither proves a universal procurement automation. Their figures do not forecast savings, accuracy, inventory, service, compatibility, or ROI for another chain.
Proof
Relevant logistics and operations evidence
Multi-location inventory and invoice operations
The platform linked POS data, inventory, suppliers and invoice extraction across a retail estate. It is adjacent evidence for supply-chain handoffs.
Musgrave receipt scanning software case study for SuperValu and Centra
Musgrave's post-campaign report records 1,062 users and 1,610 receipt submissions. At the reporting snapshot, 1,158 were AI approved, 409 AI rejected, 4 manually approved, 10 manually rejected, and 29 remained processing.
Automate a supply-chain handoff when the event, rule, authority, exception, and baseline are observable.
Keep negotiation, planning, sourcing, quality, release, and other consequential judgement with accountable people.
A fit
01
A frequent procurement, supplier, inventory, receipt, invoice, shipment, or reconciliation path crosses systems and creates measurable manual work.
02
Planning, procurement, warehouse, logistics, finance, quality, legal, security, privacy, support, and product owners can approve release.
03
Exact interface access plus representative duplicates, partials, changes, delays, substitutions, reversals, outages, and reconciliation cases are available.
Not a fit
01
A supported ERP, WMS, procurement, carrier, or supplier product already covers the workflow, integrations, updates, and service expectations.
02
The process is unstable, poorly owned, low volume, or depends mainly on negotiation, demand, sourcing, quality, safety, or geopolitical judgement.
03
The client expects automation to guarantee savings, inventory, availability, supplier performance, customs, compliance, or vendor compatibility.
Choose the capability by the decision it supports
| Need | Best fit | Primary boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Authoritative purchasing, inventory, finance, and enterprise records | ERP or WMS | Master data, transactions, controls, accounting, updates, and support |
| Future demand and uncertainty | Predictive analytics | Forecast, intervals, assumptions, backtests, overrides, drift, and planning input |
| Documents become structured records | Document automation | Extraction, confidence, validation, human review, source evidence, and posting |
| Cross-system operational handoff | Supply-chain automation | Events, mappings, rules, approvals, exceptions, writes, monitoring, and reconciliation |
Scope
What belongs in one exception-aware handoff
- 01
Event, identity, and authority contract
Define partner, product, location, order, shipment or invoice identifiers, source, version, timestamp, units, currency, state, permissible transitions, approval authority, deduplication key, retention, and authoritative system. - 02
Validation and approved rules
Validate identity, completeness, freshness, units, quantities, prices, tolerances supplied by owners, duplicates, dates, status, required evidence, and dependencies before proposing or writing a result. - 03
Approval and exception queues
Route commitments, mismatches, substitutions, partials, late events, expired documents, low confidence, policy breaches, and consequential changes to named roles with source context, reason, service level, escalation, and disposition. - 04
Idempotent integration and reconciliation
Map one or two exact interfaces, write with stable business keys, record acknowledgement, retry safely, quarantine failures, verify destination state, reconcile totals and status, and support authorised correction or reversal. - 05
Monitoring and live operations
Track event freshness, queue age, partner and interface errors, rate limits, failed writes, approvals, notifications, reconciliation gaps, backlog, pause state, recovery, manual fallback, access, incidents, and support ownership.
How it works
From manual baseline to one reconciled supply-chain handoff
- Phase 101
Define event, authority, and baseline
Choose one workflow, partners, systems, records, triggers, rules, approvals, exceptions, service levels, owners, current effort and error baseline, risks, and acceptance measures.
- Phase 202
Prove interfaces and real exceptions
Test exact ERP, WMS, supplier, carrier, file or API access, identifiers, units, lead times, duplicates, delays, partials, changes, outages, permissions, reversals, and reconciliation cases.
- Phase 303
Build the bounded automation
Implement event capture, mapping, validation, approved rules, approvals, exception queues, idempotent writes, retries, audit, one or two integrations, monitoring, recovery, and reconciliation.
- Phase 404
Pilot, compare, and hand over
Run representative volume and adverse cases, compare the baseline, reconcile records and money, test access, failed writes, downtime, manual fallback, support, training, monitoring, and staged rollout.
Risk
What the automation contract must settle
- Human authority
- Client owners retain demand, safety stock, sourcing, negotiation, supplier, quantity, price, substitution, quality, hold, release, accounting, tax, sanctions, customs, and compliance judgement.
- Master and event identity
- Partner, product, unit, location, order, line, shipment, receipt, invoice, period and version mappings must be explicit. Quarantine ambiguity instead of creating false matches.
- Interface reality
- Confirm exact versions, licences, API or file access, EDI profiles, events, writes, rate limits, sandboxes, support and commercial terms. Vendor names are not compatibility guarantees.
- Exception operation
- Automation moves routine work; value depends on staffed exceptions. Monitor queues and delivery, define service levels, rehearse outages, reconcile outcomes, and keep a manual path.
Scope and price
A focused supply-chain automation starts at $40,000.
Start with one measurable handoff, bounded partners and volume, approved rules, human review, one or two proven integrations, monitoring, and reconciliation.
Unlike forecasting, this service moves approved operational records and exceptions across systems. Planning and commercial judgement remain client-owned.
Starting investment
Starts at $40,000
A focused release usually takes 12 to 16 weeks. Several ERPs, warehouses, suppliers, countries, documents, forecasts, or high availability increase scope.
No savings or availability guarantee
RaftLabs proves the contracted workflow and interfaces. Client operators and partners own source data, judgement, service, compliance, and business outcomes.
Exceptions stay visible
Duplicate, partial, late, missing, rejected, changed, failed, and unreconciled records route to owners instead of becoming silent truth.
Related services
- 01
Workflow Automation
Connect repeatable work across people and systems with state, ownership, exceptions, and audit.
- 02
Demand Forecasting
Forecast future demand with intervals, backtests, overrides, drift monitoring, and planner ownership.
- 03
Document Automation
Extract and validate supplier, order, receipt, invoice, and logistics documents.
- 04
Logistics Automation
Automate dispatch, carrier, shipment, route, proof, exception, and settlement handoffs.
Common questions
Start with a frequent, rule-bound handoff whose trigger, source record, owner, exception, output, and baseline are visible: purchase requisition routing, approved PO creation, supplier data collection, receipt and invoice matching, shipment status, inventory exceptions, or reconciliation. Avoid automating unstable policy or nuanced commercial judgement.
It can create drafts or bounded low-risk orders under client-approved rules and authority. Planners and buyers own demand inputs, safety stock, lead times, supplier choice, quantity, price, substitution, urgency, and commitments. Consequential, unusual, or low-confidence cases should require approval, with source evidence and an audit trail.
Possibly. We confirm exact products, versions, markets, licences, account tiers, APIs or files, authentication, events, writes, rate limits, sandboxes, EDI profiles, certification, and support. A vendor name or prior integration never guarantees another interface. One real path and its failures are proven before commitment.
Define the workflow and baseline first: manual touches, elapsed time, queue age, duplicate or missing events, correction rate, reconciliation effort, and exception volume. Compare the same path during a controlled pilot. Inventory, availability, cost, service, supplier, and revenue outcomes depend on wider decisions and are not guaranteed.
A first release starts at $40,000 and usually takes 12 to 16 weeks. It covers one workflow, bounded partners and volume, approved rules, human review, exception handling, one or two proven integrations, monitoring, reconciliation, and handover. Several ERPs, warehouses, suppliers, countries, documents, forecasts, or high availability increase scope.
Work with us
Bring the handoff, system map, baseline, and exceptions that slow the chain.
Share partners, records, systems, volumes, triggers, approvals, errors, partials, duplicates, delays, documents, access, reconciliation, service levels, support, and owners.
- Scope and cost agreed before work starts. No surprises. No obligation.
- Working prototype within 3 weeks of kickoff.
- Pay by milestone. You see progress before each invoice.
- 60-day post-launch warranty. Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and deployment support. No retainer.
- All conversations are NDA-protected.